A Short History of Educational Games

For my university program I had to create a timeline for a topic on Learning and Technology. I chose Educational Games. As topics go, this one is quite extensive. In fact, during my research I discovered that there are literally hundreds of educational games since the 80’s and specially since the advent of smart phones. In deciding what to include, I decided to mostly focus on educational games I personally know about. This means that after the 90’s, I kind of skip a bunch of games. Still, the video is over 17 minutes long and it actually took me about 10 hours to write the script, record audio, make the slides, and finally, produce the video. In the beginning I wanted to feature in the film, but time considerations meant that idea had to be dropped. I hope you enjoy it and I apologize for my voice. I have been sick for weeks… or perhaps months.